CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, Why?

HTML has been designed to describe a document's content but not it's display.

Formatting tags (<b>, <br>, <i>) should not be used.

CSS should be used instead.

Separation of Concerns: CSS allows separation of content and design.

CSS syntax is basically composed of selectors, properties and values.

selector {

    /* Comment your CSS! */
    property: value;
    ...

}

The selector: allows you to select which elements in the page are concerned by this styling.
The property: is the the styling property you want to control.
The value: is the value you want to set on the property.

p {
    color: red;
    text-align: center;
}

Except if you are using a framework, CSS is generally loaded using the HTML <link> tag.

<head>
    <link href="/assets/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

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